Wednesday, November 04, 2009

eleven four

On this day in history:
1869 - First issue of the journal Nature is published
1922 - Howard Carter discovers King Tutankhamun's tomb
1966 - The River Arno floods and causes major damage to the city of Florence (especially noteworthy because the same river flooded Florence on the same day in 1333)
1970 - Genie, a feral child, is discovered in Los Angeles
1984 - Dell Computer is founded (as PC's Limited)

These people were born:
1916 - Walter Cronkite
1946 - Laura Bush
1960 - Kathy Griffin
1962 - Jeff Probst
1969 - P. Diddy AND Matthew McConaughey
1981 - This guy:

We had a little birthday celebration with a few gifts...
But THIS was the centerpiece of it all:
All right, maybe it was a little ambitious, but A for effort, right? If you don't recognize it, here is the inspiration (we're obsessed):

Earlier this week, Brandon's computer monitor died a tragic death, necessitating a replacement. We named it Megalodon.

Happy birthday, Brandon!

4 comments:

Polly said...

Happy Birthday Brandon! From this post, it looks like you had a nice celebration. Thanks Alison for making it a Happy Birthday celebration. Can't wait to see you guys.
If it's chocolate cake, save me a piece, please.
See ya.

Steph said...

Very cute! I like the cake :) And what a sweet monitor! Happy Birthday!

Anonymous said...

Cool but why do you have a knife next to you screen?

Meredith said...

Valiant effort on the cake, my dear!